After Tomahawk missiles rained down on a Syrian government airfield, I analyzed for HuffPost how the brilliant and rapid-fire geopolitical move by the Trump administration masterfully distracted domestic opponents from allegations of colluding with Moscow.

In advance of the 2016 elections, I wrote for Al Jazeera America about a clever ballot initiative in California that sought to force state legislators to walk into their chamber in Sacramento donning the logos of their top 10 donors.

With more than 300 million firearms owned by U.S. civilians and at least 100 million guns produced by U.S. manufacturers in the last 25 years, the U.S. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world. I explained the link between revenues, stock prices, lobbying, and gun laws.

With reporting by Yasmine Ryan, photography by Tara Todras-Whitehill, and production by Joanna Kao, Vaughn Wallace and I edited this multimedia exploration of the cultural festival that took place despite geopolitical uncertainties in the North African country.

I covered key U.S. political issues of the 2012 presidential election from middle America, beyond the campaign trail’s battlegrounds, reporting on voters in four states so Republican-leaning that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney invested much electoral capital (archival Al Jazeera English link).

Six-part Worldfocus multimedia series on the people and culture of North Korea. Watch original footage from August 2009 of the Pyongyang Metro, rural countryside, Demilitarized Zone, and everyday North Korean civilians. Read an interview with a North Korean army major who explains why the stalemate remains. (Archival WNET link)